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@BetterCallDaddy host @friedmanwatts, on crafting a killer podcast interview · Your Mic

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  How do you craft a killer interview?
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  Well, it starts with stalking the victim.
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  Oh, good lord. I'm gonna leave the studio right now.
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  You need to know who you are interviewing first.
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  If they have social media, you need to know what they're posting about.
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  What are people posting about them?
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  It's so hard to get people to share your podcast,
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  but it's not hard to get them to say a funny line
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  and to want to connect with you on social.
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  It has like gotten me hundreds of new followers within days.
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  All because of one little trick.
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  How do you craft a killer interview?
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  Well, it starts with stalking the victim.
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  Oh, good lord. I'm gonna leave the studio right now.
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  It's true.
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  Elaborate.
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  Yes, so you need to know who you are interviewing first.
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  That's what she means, everybody.
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  You don't literally stalk, but you need to research.
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  You gotta know something.
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  Researching slash stalking in a good way.
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  Yeah.
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  And what I mean by that is if they have social media,
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  you need to know what they're posting about.
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  And also what are people posting about them?
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  So one of the first things that I do is look at someone's LinkedIn.
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  And I see who has recently recommended them.
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  And then I try to connect with those people.
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  And then I say to them,
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  could I connect with you?
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  I'm getting ready to interview the person
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  that you just recommended.
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  And I drop their name.
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  And then I say, is there anything,
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  like if you were interviewing them,
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  that you would want to ask them?
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  That's pretty hardcore.
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  You're going into the comments.
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  And connecting with people who commented on the people
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  that you're gonna interview.
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  I never would have thought to do that.
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  Yes, wow.
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  I've done that many times,
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  especially when I don't know the person well.
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  So if I want a unique question,
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  I want to know who knows them well.
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  Because somebody who usually gives a recommendation
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  to someone has had an experience with them.
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  And when you've had an experience with someone
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  and you actually know them in real life,
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  like if you've worked a job with them
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  or you've done a podcast episode with them,
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  people that you're writing a recommendation for,
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  you probably know a little bit deeper.
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  So you want to connect with the person
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  that knows them deeper.
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  Because then you might get like a good curveball question.
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  Is that how you were able to...
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  Okay, let's back up.
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  Because LinkedIn wasn't really a thing
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  when you were producing for Springer
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  and Nanny 911.
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  Like, I feel this is...
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  This was embedded in your psyche.
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  This is like, just...
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  This is a new tactic.
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  This is in your DNA.
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  So how did you do what you're talking about
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  back then before we had social media?
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  Hmm.
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  Well, I don't have a problem talking to people.
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  You obviously don't.
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  We'll get to that specific examples
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  from our trip to Dallas.
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  Yeah, so it was more run and gun than
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  it was like Springer was like,
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  oh, just go to a strip club
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  and Jell-O wrestling night
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  and see if any girl has two guys fighting over them.
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  Jell-O-Night strip club.
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  Wow, okay.
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  I mean, know your audience.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, that was the audience, right?
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  Yeah.
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  Oh, my goodness.
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  Okay, so well...
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  Might have found guess that way.
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  Nanny 911, honestly,
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  you could still in the same way.
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  That was kind of at the start of social media.
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  So it would have been more like
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  kind of like Facebook now.
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  Like, if you're wanting to cover a topic,
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  you can literally just pull your audience.
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  Like, hey, do you know anybody
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  that has their hands full with twins or triplets
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  or kids under 17 like myself?
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  And would they be open to being on television
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  and telling their story
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  and getting advice from someone
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  who might be able to get them on a better schedule?
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  Okay, so this is this kind of...
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  We're going to get back to crafting a killer interview
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  but because you talk about having four kids
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  under the age of 17, I have to know
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  what do they think about?
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  Mom being a podcaster one,
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  but two, have you explained to them
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  what Jerry Springer is?
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  Yeah, that's a great question.
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  I don't think they fully understand that.
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  And that is partially why I chose not to be in the documentary.
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  There are parts of that show that happened
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  before we all had phones
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  and we're recording everything permanently
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  and forevermore.
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  Oh gosh.
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  Aren't you glad that we grew up?
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  I mean, not like I did anything illegal.
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  I'm just saying with the way
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  that all it takes is somebody to see,
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  oh, well, wow, I can't believe Reena used to do this.
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  Well, guess what?
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  I'm not going to offer her that job.
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  It is a little scary considering some of my old episodes
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  have surfaced on YouTube
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  and if you know what to search, you can find them.
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  Ooh, I mean, fall into my rabbit hole.
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  Okay, so back to crafting a killer interview.
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  What do you think is getting overused
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  when it comes to new podcasters
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  or even people that are like 100 episodes in?
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  Yeah, great question.
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  So I think one way to keep it fresh versus overused.
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  I mean, you need to have your speaking points
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  but don't always say, well, you know,
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  the name of my company is speak podcasting
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  and let me tell you what speak means.
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  Like you told me you've already kind of shared that
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  on multiple episodes.
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  So maybe you could say it in a different way
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  or say it briefly but also point them
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  to past episodes you've done on that.
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  I mean, that's a great way to re-avertize an old episode.
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  I think think about things that you don't share
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  or you might not 100% be comfortable sharing
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  and kind of inch your way into telling things,
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  telling your audience things
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  that are a little bit more personal.
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  And also find ways to
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  find common ground with the person
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  that you're going to interview.
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  So here's an example of that.
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  Like I had a past client reach out to me recently
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  and he was like, hey, you know,
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  here's another lady that I worked with in healthcare
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  and she's a dynamic guest
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  and she helps people with career transition.
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  So I looked at her LinkedIn
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  and it said that she was a religion major.
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  And I was like, oh, you're comfortable
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  like talking about religion.
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  Cool. I've had some different chapters
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  of questioning my faith.
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  How did you become a religion major?
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  Did someone say something to you?
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  So yes, she wants to talk about people
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  and their career journeys,
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  but maybe start somewhere else
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  and get to the career journey after.
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  Like go back to what somebody majored in.
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  When did you know you wanted to major in that?
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  Did you start with that or did you end up at that?
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  It seems to me like it's okay to take a detour.
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  It's okay to kind of circle around.
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  It doesn't have to be necessarily one straight uphill
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  and then back downhill as you debrief
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  as you wrap up the interview.
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  It's okay to take twists and turns.
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  Yes. Did I interpret that right?
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  100%.
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  And I love that you just did that.
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  I think another really great thing
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  about crafting a killer interview is either
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  if you're going to have a co-host,
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  like they need to be able to synthesize your thoughts
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  and kind of restate things
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  in case somebody might have missed something
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  so way to go there.
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  And if the other person doesn't do that,
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  you need to be able to do that.
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  So here's some of the things that we covered
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  in this interview that I want you to remember from it.
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  And you can kind of leave the listener with that.
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  And my dad is the co-host of my podcast,
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  Better Call Daddy.
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  And I feel like he's really good at doing that.
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  He's also really good at taking whatever theme
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  we've done in the episode and being like,
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  and that's why we have Better Call Daddy
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  because we do that too.
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  He's good at putting in a plug,
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  putting in a call to action,
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  like getting the audience to remember
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  why they're listening in the first place.
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  And then also interpreting the guest story
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  and synthesizing their thoughts
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  and adding his intergenerational perspective
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  onto whatever the guest said.
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  So I think another really beautiful thing
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  about crafting a killer interview
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  is to wrap up your thoughts, have a call to action,
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  and then weigh in on what the guest shared with you
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  and how you related to it.
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  Okay, all right.
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  Because I've done over 1,000 interviews
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  since God knows when I know I don't look a day over 30.
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  But that's one thing that I don't think I've ever really done
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  or mastered is the wrap up, the debrief.
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  And so perhaps something that would work
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  and maybe I integrated into the podcast about podcasting
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  and into cruise through HTX.
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  And I like, this is where I'm asking you
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  and you could sort of be my coach,
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  is that what would you think of?
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  We do the cold opens.
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  What about a cold outro where you're like,
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  well, I talked arena today and man,
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  was she on fire because she talked about all the ways
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  that, taka, taka, taka, taka, walka, walka, walka, right?
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  Wrap up and then give the CTA.
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  Yeah.
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  Whereas you don't have to form,
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  we don't have to, like, for this particular conversation,
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  we don't have to thank you, rena, for coming by the show.
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  Oh, absolutely.
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  And don't forget to subscribe to Better Call Daddy, right?
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  And how can we contact you?
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  Yeah.
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  BetterCallDaddy.com.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  So instead, it's like,
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  hey, thanks for coming by the show.
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  Thanks for having me.
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  And then, yeah, so what'd you think about that conversation?
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  You know, here's what I got from it.
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  And then, let's three points.
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  Or you can even say something like,
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  I love that you're talking to inspirational fathers
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  and daddy's girls and finding common ground
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  between the two of them.
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  And I'm a dad.
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  So I relate to that.
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  Right.
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  Huh.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  But you also could just synthesize it kind of like as we go
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  because like, you just did that a second ago
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  where you like tried to understand what I said
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  and then restated it in a better way.
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  There are hosts that do that really well.
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  And I appreciate that because I'm like,
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  oh, wow, I love that you understood what I said
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  and said it even better than me.
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  Well, and thank you.
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  Also, I think it's also a function of listening
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  to what the guest is saying.
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  So I was actively listening,
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  not really just waiting and waiting and waiting
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  for Reno to finish talking so I can get to the next question.
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  That's an advanced listening skill though
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  and an advanced interviewer because in the beginning,
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  we're all doing that.
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  It really takes getting comfortable on the mic
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  to be able to listen
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  and then just respond and be on topic.
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  I think with new broadcasters,
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  it's good to have like your little list
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  but be open to kind of switching them up
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  if you have a good follow-up question.
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  Yeah, it's very easy to forget how comfortable I am
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  with this being here.
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  Yeah.
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  And some people are not.
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  Right.
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  Like this is intimidating to some people.
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  Yes.
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  Right.
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  And we're on camera right now
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  and the camera adds a whole other dimension.
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  And then you add, oh wow, wow,
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  I've not only got these mics here
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  but then there's a camera that's rolling
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  and then there are these big intimidating lights
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  and then wow, I got these soundproof panels.
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  I'm in an actual studio
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  and now I'm getting a panic attack
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  because I'm not used to this.
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  Yeah, do you have any tricks
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  to get people to not feel like the lights are on
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  and the sound panels are behind them?
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  Yeah, every now and then I will tell somebody
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  who I kind of get is nervous
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  and I'll tell them in a very unironic way.
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  Just ignore this and all the lights.
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  We're just going to stare at you awkwardly
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  and just kind of like break the ice
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  by telling them how awkward it is
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  but try and be funny about it.
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  I hope that makes sense.
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  Yeah, I think that pointing them out
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  and aiming that they're there
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  but they don't bother you as a good idea
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  and also maybe just saying like,
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  this is edited.
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  So if you totally flub, it's all good.
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  We got that out.
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  Yeah, I try not to say that
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  because I think it...
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  You're like more work.
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  More work.
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  Oh, yeah, one.
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  It's not edited.
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  More work, more work,
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  and then also I think it also plants the seed.
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  It's like good.
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  I don't need to be on top of my game
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  because if I mess up...
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  Good point.
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  You know, yeah.
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  But I mean, we tell people
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  that my clients will tell people.
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  It's okay.
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  It's all pre-recorded.
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  It's not live.
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  And that's the beauty of podcasting
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  is that it's not live.
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  It's not on a local TV affiliate
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  or a radio show
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  where you only have two or three minutes
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  to get the point out.
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  It's relaxed.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  You know?
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  I am curious.
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  Like, what you see is differences
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  between podcasting
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  and like your radio days of like
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  having to hit a post
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  and like deliver exactly like a 30-second spot.
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  Oh my god.
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  I just love that you said
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  hitting a post.
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  It's tough.
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  It came natural.
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  Ooh.
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  No wonder you were there so long.
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  I loved hitting a post.
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  And like, did you hear that post?
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  No space in between.
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  Let me tell you.
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  When I used to dream about being on the radio
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  when I was just when I was starting in college,
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  I would actually talk up posts
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  in my truck listening to the radio.
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  Like, I would probably,
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  I would literally practice doing that.
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  Wow.
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  Yeah.
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  But and then I learned this one.
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  This is really getting into the weeds.
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  I'll answer your question.
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  But there's this one trick
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  that this guy, he would um,
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  because when you take collar,
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  you were on the radio.
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  Yeah.
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  So you know this.
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  So when you take collar,
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  ten, or whatever for a contest
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  and sometimes the clock will be ticking
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  because if you have a shitty winner.
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  Hey, you just rena.
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  You want a thousand dollars.
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  And then thanks.
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  Thanks.
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  Or they um their whole way.
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  Right?
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  And so he had this genius trick
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  where he would run.
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  He would start the song back in queue
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  and then reverse the winner.
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  And it would hit the post.
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  And then he would mark it.
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  And then he'd go all the way back in the Vox Pro.
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  And it would, I'm like,
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  what are you doing?
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  I know what you're doing.
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  Why did I, why have I never done this before?
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  And it was just the most genius hack.
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  Wow. That's really cool.
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  Yeah.
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  That's like a DJ move.
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  That's a serious DJ move.
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  And like this is like over the head of anybody
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  who's listening as a podcaster.
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  Like what the fuck are you even talking about?
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  That's crazy.
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  But it's fun.
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  Yeah.
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  Somehow some way it shaped me
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  into being a producer and host
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  the same guy that I am now.
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  But to answer your question,
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  I really like that we can just take our time and chill.
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  And we don't have to worry about,
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  oh well you know I've only got 14 seconds
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  over this Justin Bieber track.
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  And oh well you know what?
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  I better not say this
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  because I don't want to piss off the suits.
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  And what do you think?
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  Because you came from not just radio, but also TV.
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  Yeah.
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  Well when we were doing a shoot at the funeral museum
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  pre-ar event,
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  I was noticing even your ability
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  to just stand in front of a prop
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  and deliver a line.
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  So that can be good for doing an ad.
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  That can be good for doing an intro,
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  a cool intro, a cool outro.
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  Like I feel like you have an advantage there.
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  And I also,
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  yeah like I've tried to incorporate that
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  even into my own intros.
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  So remember I told you that we're going to talk
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  about the trips to Dallas
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  where Reno was,
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  you were working the room so hard
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  and you were a room manager?
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  Yes.
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  Okay.
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  Actually a room manager.
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  Technically a room manager.
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  Working, I mean just like working it.
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  And
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  Reno was,
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  Reno was going
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  to people that I'm guessing you've never met.
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  Never met.
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  And she would have them just say the name of her show
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  and the different inflections you got
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  and the different styles.
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  Isn't that fun?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, the first girl who encouraged me to do it
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  like she came up to me.
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  And so I'm sorry to cut you off.
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  Yeah.
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  Like explain why you did that
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  and how you're incorporating that
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  into Better Call Daddy
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  because that is genius
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  and that is something that people can learn.
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  Yeah, thank you.
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  So a girl came up to me and she was like,
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  you know, just friendly
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  and asking me about the event.
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  And I don't even know why I said it to her.
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  But I just, I liked her vibe.
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  She had a whole kind of like interesting look.
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  She had a shaved head and she was bubbly
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  and the girlfriend that she was with
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  looked like a yogi.
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  And I was like just her approach
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  and how she came up to me.
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  I felt like was interesting
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  and would make a fun clip.
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  And I had done it a couple times in the past
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  where like if a bartender looks like a character,
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  I'd be like, hey, can I get you to say
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  I think you better call Daddy
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  because he looks like a character.
• 17:10
  She looked like a character.
• 17:12
  And so I was like, can I get you
• 17:13
  kind of like how you just approached me
• 17:15
  to be like, hey girl,
• 17:16
  I think you better call Daddy.
• 17:17
  Just like very casual.
• 17:18
  Yeah.
• 17:19
  So that's back to even what we were talking about.
• 17:21
  Just give somebody a one line.
• 17:23
  Give somebody an open.
• 17:24
  Give somebody something easy to say
• 17:26
  that they can repeat
• 17:27
  and that can make great content.
• 17:29
  So she did it.
• 17:30
  And she was like, even better than that,
• 17:31
  let's take your phone and go do this to 20 people.
• 17:33
  I was like, oh yeah, I love what you're drinking.
• 17:36
  And so and then the first one I posted it
• 17:39
  like one in the morning, like from a bar,
• 17:42
  you know, didn't even matter the hashtags,
• 17:45
  didn't even matter anything.
• 17:48
  Like not at one in the morning.
• 17:50
  Was that the pickle bowl night?
• 17:51
  That was at the chicken and pickle.
• 17:53
  And honestly, I went up to this girl
• 17:56
  and I was like, what's the drink that's being chosen
• 17:59
  by the most people?
• 18:00
  Like she had like six choices.
• 18:02
  I was like, which one are the ladies grabbing?
• 18:04
  And she was like, well actually this one.
• 18:06
  And I was like, okay, let's do that again on camera.
• 18:07
  That's funny.
• 18:08
  And then I was like, better yet.
• 18:09
  Can I get you to say better called Daddy?
• 18:10
  And then it just, I posted her in like 5,000 views
• 18:14
  with like in the first hour.
• 18:16
  I was like, okay, I'm on to something here.
• 18:18
  And it's so hard to get people to share your podcast.
• 18:22
  But it's not hard to get them to say a funny line.
• 18:26
  And to want to connect with you on social.
• 18:28
  So it's like, what channel are you on that you use?
• 18:32
  And she was like Facebook.
• 18:33
  I'm not really an Instagrammer.
• 18:34
  So I posted it from Facebook, tag her on Facebook at the bar.
• 18:39
  And then I shared it to my Instagram as well.
• 18:42
  And it just took off.
• 18:43
  And then I was like, oh man, I can't post all of these
• 18:46
  in one night.
• 18:46
  I've got like 20 of them.
• 18:47
  I actually, the guy that you noticed on my Instagram.
• 18:50
  So this one guy did like a double chin.
• 18:52
  You're like, I don't got it.
• 18:53
  It was like so funny.
• 18:55
  But I was staggering them.
• 18:56
  I was like, airing one a day
• 18:58
  because you don't want to like put 20 videos up at once.
• 19:01
  Oh, yeah.
• 19:02
  And he was like, oh, I thought I didn't make the cut.
• 19:03
  I was like, there's the line.
• 19:05
  Yes, you made the cut better called daddy.
• 19:07
  And then another guy was like, and in Portuguese.
• 19:09
  And I'm like, and in Portuguese better called daddy.
• 19:12
  Hey girl and better called daddy.
• 19:13
  It was like, whatever line they said or they gave me
• 19:17
  or they DM'd me, I just use that.
• 19:20
  And then hashtag better called daddy.
• 19:22
  The name of my show hashtag chicken and pickle
• 19:25
  where it was at, hashtag iHeart that put on the party,
• 19:28
  hashtag podcast movement
• 19:29
  because everyone's searching that right now.
• 19:32
  And it has like gotten me hundreds of new followers
• 19:35
  within days.
• 19:36
  Yeah.
• 19:37
  Yeah.
• 19:38
  All because of one little trick.
• 19:41
  One little trick.
• 19:42
  And I was even telling you, I'm like,
• 19:43
  we had these two hot chicks at your party.
• 19:45
  It's Dr. Sturm's office.
• 19:47
  I'm like, get them to say, are you brave enough
• 19:49
  to come to speak fast and let's get some trick
• 19:52
  that I'm going to start incorporating.
• 19:56
  And so that's a beautiful segue.
• 19:57
  That is what we call in the radio world
• 19:59
  and probably TV, I guess, a beautiful segue.
• 20:02
  And to back into speak fast.
• 20:05
  Because we're talking about crafting a killer interview.
• 20:07
  That's the workshop that you're going to be hosting.
• 20:08
  Yes.
• 20:09
  And so yeah, let's get the elevator pitch
• 20:14
  about what your workshop is going to be.
• 20:17
  And then yes.
• 20:19
  Yes.
• 20:19
  So my workshop is going to be interactive.
• 20:22
  It is going to be showing you the difference
• 20:25
  between scared and prepared.
• 20:29
  Love that.
• 20:30
  So this is just one of several workshops
• 20:32
  that we're going to have at SpeakFest 2025 night
• 20:35
  of the Living Pod.
• 20:36
  Because we're fighting the zombie podcast plague.
• 20:39
  No more zombie podcasts.
• 20:41
  We want you to launch your show.
• 20:42
  We want you to maintain your show.
• 20:43
  We want you to keep going past episode 50, 100, 200 and more.
• 20:47
  So we want to see you October 10th and 11th
• 20:50
  at the National Museum of Funeral History.
• 20:53
  Reena is just one of many of my podcast pals
• 20:56
  that's going to be on hand.
• 20:57
  We're going to have in addition to the workshops, panels
• 21:01
  and keynote speeches.
• 21:03
  And we're going to get you all that information.
• 21:06
  Everything you need to know,
• 21:07
  it's SpeakPodcasting.com slash SpeakFest 2025.
• 21:14
  Thank you, Reena.
• 21:16
  Thank you.
• 21:17
  I got a daddy to participate with me.
• 21:19
  We're talking about things that I don't normally talk about.
• 21:22
  And we are jazzed for SpeakFest 2025.
• 21:26
  Make sure you're there.
• 21:27
  You don't want to miss this.
• 21:30
  All right.